Soldiers and Marines - and, to a lesser extent, sailors and airmen - learn to "drive to survive" in foreign battlegrounds. But those same driving skills do not translate well to US roads and are proving deadly for troops, myFOXhouston.com reported.

"It was complete culture shock coming from the military back to Houston," Bryan Escobedo, a former sergeant with the US Marine Corps, explained.

"For a long time, when I was driving on the highway, I always thought that there was IEDs [improvised explosive devices]. Anything that I saw on the side of the road, I'd swerve all the way. I don't know - it would just overtake me with anxiety, and I sometimes had to pull over and gather myself," Escobedo told FOX station KRIV

Escobedo survived four IED attacks overseas. But driving habits that once saved his life now are putting him at risk.

The problem is real, according to military insurer the United Services Automobile Association (USAA).

That is a huge problem with the military. They do all that training to teach them to kill and survive in a war zone, they spend years living in that situation and then they don't get retrained to live in society. They often have trouble transitioning back to peaceful living and the military does nothing to help them.

Me too Bohica. A job. I'm glad I did though cause I was 18 when I figured out I would never go to war except in defense of my country. Literal defense, enemy boots on Canadian soil, not the pretenses used to attack others.

(06-20-2012, 08:04 AM)Shadow Wrote: .../I would never go to war except in defense of my country. Literal defense, enemy boots on Canadian soil, not the pretenses used to attack others.

Exactly what I'm talking about.

You fight to protect your homeland when/if attacked.

Everything else reeks of organized crime and imperialism.

(Still happy about my country not taking part in the Libya-swindle.
Still unhappy about Finnish soldiers/police taking part in the Iraq/
Afghanistan-even-bigger-one.
Rip our lovely blue-and-white off their uniforms!
They sure as f**k do not represent the will of their people!!
Grrr!!!)